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crossing the River Styx

Hades, the Underworld, consists of three sections. At the trivium sacred to Hecate, where three roads meets, souls are judged, returned to the Fields of Asphodel if they are neither virtuous nor evil, sent by the road to Tartarus if they are impious or evil, or sent to Elysium (Elysian Fields) with the heroic or blessed.

And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus
It is a great gulf, and if once a man were within the gates, he would not reach the floor until a whole year had reached its end, but cruel blast upon blast would carry him this way and that. Theogony II

Les Champs-ElyséesThe literal translation is: Elysian fields.*Men lead there an easier life than any where else in the world, for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow, but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men...."
Homer, Odissey, book III.

The Fields of Aspohdel (a grey, unattractive flower, a favorite food of the dead) is not a place of punishmentbut a place wherethe shades exist in a confused and oblivious state.

Sibilia CumaeaShe serves as a guide to the underworld.*All night long, all day, the doors of Hades stand open.
But to retrace the path, to come up to the sweet air of heaven,
That is labour indeed. Aeneid 6.10

Rosa TriplexHecate, goddess of the crossroads, is often shown with three heads, each facing one of the roads to Hades.

Psyche and CharonCharon, the ferryman of the River Styx,(some say the River Acheron)who,for a coin, transports the properly buried to the Underworld.*

The Hydra greets the condemnedbefore they descend into Tartarus.*The right to Pluto's golden palace guides;
The left to that unhappy region tends,
Which to the depth of Tartarus descends;
The seat of night profound, and punish'd fiends.Aeneid VI

The Chimaera's DespairThe Chimeara is a greeterat the gates of Tartarus.

The Furies.These little beautiestorture the guilty in Tartarus.

Dante considered the upper level of hell to be ELYSIAN.A place where the unbaptized and unbelieving,yet virtous among us, could exist in peace.*

The Waters of Lethe by the Plains of ElysiumOne of the five rivers of the underworld. Souls were made to drink from this "River of Forgetfulness"before being reincarnatedso they would have no memory of their former lives.*

ProserpineThe consort of Hades, God of the underworld.Odysseus presented her with a golden boughto prove his visit tothe Underworld was harmless.

Time stands still in this blue green place.Leaf dappled and drowsy,drunk with apple-scented breezes,I lie beneath golden boughsthat mouth their response to my mute soliloquy.A swollen rictus, glittering and purple stained from slumber-laden berries,emits a silent scream.The blooming silence echosas I drift unshriven and without coinon the anguished shoals of the Acheron.annie